I don’t think director Al Adamson‘s 1971 film Dracula vs. Frankenstein is very good – in fact, we’ve previously called it “awfully good”, with an emphasis on “awful”, here on JoBlo – and yet I would still name it as classic of the drive-in era… and I’m glad to hear that it’s getting a follow-up in comic book form. Rue Morgue has shared some exclusive images from the comic book sequel Dracula vs. Frankenstein 2: Immortal Combat (you can see those images at THIS LINK) and also got some quotes on the project from writers David Sehring and Mark Cerulli, as well as Sam Sherman, who produced and co-wrote the original film.
Sherman has input on the story told in the comic book, which picks up where Dracula vs. Frankenstein left off and “brings in characters from Adamson and Sherman’s other flicks as well.”
Coming to us from Drive-In-Sanity Films and Independent-International Pictures, Dracula vs. Frankenstein 2: Immortal Combat is described by the writers as taking place in
a weird and wild California beyond belief! … The comic book will be an action-packed fantasy filled with and inspired by Sam Sherman’s and Al Adamson’s drive-in and grindhouse genre archetypes, classic cult exploitation tropes and characters from their other horror, biker, blaxploitation and kung fu film output.”
Sherman said,
As a cult-movie fan myself, I try to make movies that cult-movie fans will enjoy. I hope this comic-book series captures the fun and feel of the drive-in movies of the ’60s and ’70s and the movies I made with my business partner and friend, Al Adamson.”
Drive-In-Sanity will be launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the publication of Dracula vs. Frankenstein 2: Immortal Combat this fall.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein had the following synopsis:
With a sudden slash of an axe, a woman named Joan is decapitated on a desolate beach at midnight. In a hellish laboratory hidden below the boardwalk Freak Emporium, Dr. Durea (a.k.a. Dr. Frankenstein!) drains the blood of corpses to distill an all-powerful serum. Count Dracula craves the new serum and offers the doctor the hulking body of the original Frankenstein monster in exchange. With a blast of spine-tingling electricity they shock the monster to life and send him on a killing spree for fresh victims. Joan s sister sets out to find her missing sibling and becomes a hostage in Dr. Durea s torture chamber. In her efforts to escape, she falls into Dracula’s clutches and witnesses the monster mash of the millennium as the Frankenstein monster and Count Dracula clash in a gut-wrenching, limb-ripping, gruesome brawl to the bloody end.
The film starred Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, Russ Tamblyn, and Angelo Rossito, with John Bloom as The Monster and Zandor Vorkov as Count Dracula.
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